Text-book of nervous diseases and psychiatry : for the use of students and practitioners of medicine / by Charles L. Dana.

  • Charles Loomis Dana
Date:
1904
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    PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITIOX The present edition contains a description of the i)rint'i])al types of insanity, in which I have followed in general the modern scheme of classification as set forth especially by Kraepelin. While adopt- ing provisionally the term dementia prsecox, it seems probable that the symptom groups now included under this name will have to undergo some modifications. The author's view of melancholia and mania is based on a personal study of a large number of non-asylum as well as asylum cases, and while it differs somewhat from the current scheme, it is not essentially out of harmony with it. I have thought it of especial importance to insist on a distinction between nmjor and minor psychoses, and to emphasize the fact tliat one may have a psychosis and yet not be in any sense insane. In fact I am in sympathy with the view that makes as few people in- sane as possible, of narrowing the conception of major psychoses and enlarging that of the minor. The addition of a cliapter on psychological terms seemed a necessity to an understanding of men- tal symi)toms. The chapters on nervous diseases have been very little changed. Some new cuts have been added and slight corrections in the text made. Perhaps the most important practical addition to iieuroh)gy added since my last edition is that of cyto-diagnosis, and on this I have made some comments. A good deal of tluit which was urigi- nally written under the head of special therapeutics has now become part of general medicine. It has been cut out, and by this means the book has not been much enlarged by the chapters on psychiatry. The writer tpiite appreciates the defects and limitations inci- dent to attempting to present such a subject as psychiatry in a small compass. I have received much help and useful .suggestion from Dr. Flavins I'acker and Dr. (iregory of the psychopathic wards of Bellevue IIos|)ital. New Youk. .hily Hth, U>(U.